FCC, CBS Square Off In Third Circuit...Again

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Source: John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable

The judges were harder to read and the issues were the nuts-and-bolts of intent, due process, adequate notice and definitions of indecent content as Janet Jackson's partially-nude breast once again became a center of attention.

That was one court observer's take on the oral re-argument of the CBS Super Bowl indecency fine Feb. 23 before a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. The judges were Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, Judge Majorie Rendell, and Judge Julio Fuentes (the same panel that heard the argument the first time around). Arguing the case were Robert Corn-Revere for CBS and Associate General Counsel Jacob Lewis for the FCC.

According to the source, who sides with the broadcaster arguments, it was not the slam dunk for their side that the tough judges' comments last month in the Fox profanity case suggested. Many of those comments were on constitutional issues the Third Circuit Judges did not explore as deeply, though the vagueness of the FCC's standard was up for discussion Tuesday, which gets to the constitutional question.

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Also see this opinion piece "What Janet Jackson Reveals About Broadcasting".

Cultural conservatives point out the Janet Jackson incident as something that's scarred our culture forever by oversexualizing it. I wonder if anyone personally is still scarred by seeing Janet Jackson's boob (especially if they were children back then). (The Onion had this funny article in 2005: "U.S. Children Still Traumatized One Year After Seeing Partially Exposed Breast On TV")

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1. What a bunch of boobs

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2. LOL

Don't they have more important things to spend their time on? Enough already!